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Cloudflare vs Scaleway

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Cloudflare

Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

Scaleway

Plenty managed services available, from queues to serverless to databases
Wide range of server configurations: Bare-metal, ARM, GPUs, Apple silicon
Uncomplicated, easy to use dashboard
Based in Europe, may ease compliance requirements for some

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	Scaleway
VM Small	--	$10.94 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	--	$42.66 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	--	$173.91 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	--	$10.39 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$19.86 / mo 1 TB	$15.86 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$12.60 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$35.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$38.28 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration	$28.71 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free for most services	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.82
GPU-3070	1x RTX3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.07
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.36
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.53
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.64
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.76
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$3.06
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.28
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.51
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$6.13
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.56
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$12.25

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Cloudflare and Scaleway offer:

Service	Cloudflare	Scaleway
Block Storage	--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Container Registry	--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Load Balancer
Managed Containers	--
Managed Kubernetes	--
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Cloudflare	Scaleway
Website	cloudflare.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2009	1999
Data Center Locations	285	9
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	Cloudflare
Website	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	285
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify